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Article #4289Re: What is the Speed of Gravity - A Call for a Volunteer
From: Hartmut Frommert
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 13:19
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 13:19
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matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr)) writes:
>I hope that the eventual entry will discuss what happens when the
>gravitational waves are propagating in a background which is not
>approximately flat. Does "gravity" propagate at the speed of light near
>a black hole?
To my knowledge, Einsteinian gravity waves always propagate at the same
velocity as "classical" light, i.e. mass- and structureless point particles
[which do not exist] along null geodesics.
Hartmut Frommert <phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de>
Dept of Physics, Univ of Constance, P.O.Box 55 60, D-W-7750 Konstanz, Germany
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